What is an argument? Is an argument valid? Was a text manipulated to persuade? Since 2020, Touché fosters the development of support-technologies for decision-making and opinion-forming. To this end, the lab brings together researchers that develop systems to automatically answer questions like those above. At CLEF 2026 we do so in four tasks: (1) Fallacy Detection (new task), in which participants determine whether an argument follows a valid argument pattern; (2) Causality Extraction (new task), in which participants extract pro- and concausal claims from text; (3) Generalizability of Argument Identification in Context (new task), in which participants predict whether sentences would be annotated as an argument under different guidelines; and (4) Advertisement in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (2nd edition), in which participants detect and block advertisements in generated text. This paper details these tasks and summarizes the results of Touché 2025.

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Overview of Touché 2026: Argumentation Systems

  • Johannes Kiesel,
  • Marc Feger,
  • Tim Hagen,
  • Sebastian Heineking,
  • Maximilian Heinrich,
  • Maik Fröbe,
  • Katarina Boland,
  • Wilhelm Pertsch,
  • Julia Romberg,
  • Ines Zelch,
  • Stefan Dietze,
  • Matthias Hagen,
  • Martin Potthast,
  • Benno Stein

摘要

What is an argument? Is an argument valid? Was a text manipulated to persuade? Since 2020, Touché fosters the development of support-technologies for decision-making and opinion-forming. To this end, the lab brings together researchers that develop systems to automatically answer questions like those above. At CLEF 2026 we do so in four tasks: (1) Fallacy Detection (new task), in which participants determine whether an argument follows a valid argument pattern; (2) Causality Extraction (new task), in which participants extract pro- and concausal claims from text; (3) Generalizability of Argument Identification in Context (new task), in which participants predict whether sentences would be annotated as an argument under different guidelines; and (4) Advertisement in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (2nd edition), in which participants detect and block advertisements in generated text. This paper details these tasks and summarizes the results of Touché 2025.